Major outageGitHubMay 26, 2026

Incident with Actions and Pages

A record of the GitHub incident on May 26, 2026 (Japan time): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.

Started
May 26, 2026, 07:57 PM
Resolved
May 26, 2026, 10:18 PM
Duration
2h 22m
Impact
Major outage

Other providers down at the same time

No other provider we monitor recorded an incident during this window. This appears to have been specific to GitHub.

Derived from our own archive of official status pages across 13 providers. Items lasting more than 24 hours and unresolved items are excluded, as they would misrepresent the moment.

How big was this outage?

This outage lasted 142 minutes. Across 49 major incidents recorded for GitHub, the median duration is 85 minutes, making this the 17th longest.

Longer than a typical outage.

Only incidents recorded as major-or-worse and already resolved are counted.

Current status

GitHub is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.

See current GitHub status

What you can do during an outage

Source: GitHub's official status page.

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